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ft I 'Bomb' By SHEL MacNEIL and CAROL DORAN RCMP officers remain puz-ried by the ciscovery Wednesday night of a bomb-like device planted in front of Division headquarters on Bank Street and a subsequent threat that a bomb would go off in the station. The force is awaiting tests on the device that was found at 11.30 p.m. in a shoe box hidden in a planter located in front of the headquarters at Bank and Lisgar streets. Awarded $5,000 Cloudy 60 to 75 Details Page 5 The Otewa Jouma Alouettes twist Ti-Cats' tails See Page 27 89th Year-185 Phone 563-3731 365 Laurler Ave. West K1G 3K6 Thursday, July 25, 1974 Home iJelivery, 85c Weekly 15c 62 Despite Greek okay Cyprus iii hi leader is UNDERGROUND FREEWAY A compromise solution to the above-ground King Edward-Henderson Avenues arterial.

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Hit three times Witnesses who were at the Told to lie to police beaten worker reveals By BOB AVERY Journal Reporter A carpenter who was smashed in the head with a hammer in 1972 during a fight on a construction site was told by a senior member of L'Abbe Construction not to press charges but to tell police the whole thing was an accident, the criminal injuries compensation board was told Wednesday. Aiban Langevin of Bourget who now cannot work because of head injuries resulting from the fight, also suffers from epilepsy. He appeared before the compensation board Wednesday and was awarded $5,000 for pain and suffering. Mr. Langevin told the two man, one woman board he was hit on the head with a hammer by a man whom he had been working with on a construction site in the city on Feb.

16, 1972. But he said at that time the foreman on the site lor L'Abbe Construction, the gen -ernl contractor, told him to tell the police that the whole thing was an accident. Mr. Langevin said the foreman, whose name he could Ten held by Texas convicts Hostages' HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP) Armed conivcts say they will kill the 10 hostages they are holding in the state prison library unless they are given automatic weapons, ammunition and bullet-proof vests.

Negotiations between the rebel convicts and prison authorities were broken off by the prisoners at about 1 a.m. today. They said they would start talking again today. The hostages are seven women and three men, civilian teachers and librarians and HorOKOpa 43 Ltilart to tna Editor a Living Paoaa PaopK In tha Nam 11 Radio HIgnlightl 41 ScronVLatl 44 Sportt M-ll Tall Ma Why 41 Thaotraa tv a Waathor I World Nawi 4 imiiuMuuuimiMiuuiuuiumutituiiuiuuuiiMtiuiiiiiuiiiiiimiuMitiiuuiuiiituiiiiiiiiHiuuMuiniiiiM at RCMP post duty spotted the box, thought it looked unusual and informed his colleagues. "He said it didn't belong there it was out of place," said another Mountie.

Ottaw policemen- were on the scene by 11.30 p.m. Soon, Bank Street between Cooper and Nepean Streets, was blocked by police cruisers. Cars and pedestrians were held back, but the intrigue lured spectators to dark side-streets to get a better look. scene of the fight in 1972 testified Wednesday that a man had smashed Mr. Langevin on the head as many as three times with a claw hammer.

The Ottawa police who investigated the incident in 1972 said Wednesday they were told by the Victim the whole thing was an accident and no charges were going to be pressed. Torn to Page 23 TOLD A member of the city police bomb squad crouched between the large tree box and the window in front A Division. Shielded by a large red bomb blanket, he opened the shoe bos and tossed the device about 25 feet into the Centre of Bank Street "It looked like he threw it with his hands," said Sgt. Gilbert Gauteux of Ottawa police patrol division, who watched the scene from close range. He said the device contained "black powder" and probably "woukf have done a lot of damage" had it exploded.

"The "bomb," after it was dismantled, consisted of a round metal A group of wires protruded from the cylinders. A' bomb squad officer looked tense even after the device was de-wired. I guess you don't get many of these In a year, someone said to him. "No, heavens but it's part of my job," he answered. Persons gathered around, many still unsure what was happening, began to move off.

Most didn't look twice at the inconspicuous white shoe box still lying by the tree. Then, it too, encased in a plastic bag along with the other remains, was carefully transported to the police station for examination. and Ray Robinson, serving a sentence for rape in Dallas. Kirkpatrick said, however, that he doesn't believe Robinson is an active participant. New bridge to Hawkesbury under study Negotiations between Ontario, Quebec and the federal government are to begin soon on construction of a new bridge linking Grenville, Que.

to Hawkesbury, Ont The public works department says a new bridge is necessary because the existing structure, known as the Perley Bridge, built in 1931, is no longer able to cope with the heavy tonnage of lumber trucks transporting timber from Quebec to the Canadian International Paper Company in Hawkesbury. The works department said 100 trucks with gross loads of between 40 and 55 tons cross the Perley Bridge dally. A new structure has been considered since the spring of 1973, when the bridge was closed for emergency repairs for a few days. lives threatened one guard, said Dr. Don Kirk-patrick, assistant director of the Texas department of corrections.

Kirkpatrick said at least three convicts were involved. Kirkpatrick told reporters Wednesday night the appar- ent leader of the rebels, Fred Gomez Carrasco, has demanded six bullet-proof vests, three bullet-proof helmets and visors, three walkie-talkie radios, three M-16 automatic rifles, five magazines of ammunition, 160 loose rounds for each rifle and "suitable clothing for the three of us." Kirkpatrick said Carrasco, sentenced to life for assault with attempt to murder a police officer at San Antonio, has threatened to km the hostages if toe demands were not met. "Mr. Carrasco is not pushing us for any time deadline," Kirkpatrick said. "It is also interesting to note there have been no transportation demands." He identified the three other convicts in the library as Rudoifo Domlnguez, serving a 15-year sentence from San Antonio for assault to murder; Ignacio Cuevas, a Mexican national serving a 45-year senterceor murder; Drama on Bank Street Policemen, left photo, crouch' tensely beside tree planter where bomb was concealed overnight outside RCMP A division offices on Bank Street.

After de activating the device, they exam-in the wiring mechanism before shipping it to an Orleans testing site for detonation. (CP-Staff Photos by Bill Brennan) Nicosia airport crisis is averted UNITED NATIONS (UPI) A major confrontation between Turkey and the United Nations has been narrowly averted, with the Ankara government vowing to honor UN jurisdiction over an embattled airport on Cyprus. In a dramatic late night session Wednesday, Turkey said it would refrain from "the use of threat of force or coercive measures" against Nicosia airport but would retain a peaceful legal interest in the facility. UN troops seized control of the airport outside Nicosia Tuesday after three days of Turkish air strikes. A small, 200-man UN force occupying the airfield is surrounded by Greek gunners and the Turkish army.

Canadian Col. Clay Beattie, LIT -J" 1 won't budge for Makarios ATHENS (AP) The new civilian government of Greece has freed all political prisoners and recognized Archbishop Makarios as president of Cyprus. But the new head of the Greek-Cypriot regime on the island, President Glafkos Clerides, said he will not hand the office back to the archbishop. One of Premier Constantine Karaman-lis's first acts after naming a 12-man cabinet Wednesday was to declare a gen-: eral amnesty for all those jailed for political dissent during the seven years of military dictatorship. Citizenship was restored to all who had been deprived of it, including actress Melina Mercouri, lettist political leader Andreas Papandreou and composer Mikos dorakis.

The new government emptied the Yiaros Island concentration camp and shut it down. Theodorakis flew home from Paris, and said he believes the return to power of Karamanlis was a positive step. But he pointed out that "the political left is excluded" from the government. The cabinet members are all centrists or -rightists, and men of economic and bureau-c a 1 1 expertise, indicating mat Karamanlis plans a speedy assault on inflation and other economic woes. Turn to Page 23-CYPRUS commanding the tiny peacekeeping force at the airport, warned nearby Turks that "an attack on the airport will be an attack on the entire United Nations," a U.S.

spokesman said. D. Prem Chand of India, commander of the UN peace force in Cyprus, had informed Secretary-Gereral Waldheim early Wednesday that Turkish officials told him they planned to take the airport by force. Waldheim, in Washington for talks on Cyprus and the Middle East with U.S. Sec re- tary of State Kissinger placed a telephone call to Turkish Prime Minister Bu- lent Ecevit A UN spokesman said Ecevit told Waldheim no attack would take place.

An unidentified North American Van Lines driver was killed early today when his five-ton truck exploded on the Queensway beneath the Plnecrest SVd overpass. The Nixon to tape Journal Wire Services WASHINGTON Pledging" to comply with the United States Supreme Court ruling "in all respects," President Nixon has ended weeks of uncertainty over whether he would surrender additional Watergate tapes and" documents. About eight Jjours after the eight-member court an-n Wednesday that Nixon must turn over 64 recorded conversations and documents, the president said that he has instructed his chief defence lawyer, James St. Clair, "to take- whatever measures are necessary to comply with the decision." Nixon had challenged in the courts a subpoena for the tapes and documents from Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski who said they were needed for the trial of six former White House aides, Full report on Page 25 Including H. R.

Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell. Now, as the second session of the televised impeachment debate got underway today, it appeared that a decision against the president is a fore8one conclusion, Miracle needed One Democrat House Leader Thomas O'Neill predicted that only a miracle could save Nixon from -is: GLAFKOS CLERIDES Makarios' return 'unwise' gives in He felt that once the judiciary committee recommended impeachment "a tidal wave would hit the House and he'd be. impeached by Over 100 votes." judiciary committee opened its TV debate Jast night and heard Charles Sandman (Rep. N.J.) say "There are sufficient votes here for an Impeachment resolution." "Everyone knows that," he said. "There is no use kidding ourselves about it." Turn to Page 23-NIX0N Cod war ruliiigr favors Britain THE HAGUE (AP) The International Court of Justice decided by a 10-to-4 rote today that Iceland cannot'uni-laterally exclude British fishing vessels from the area be tween 12 and SO nautical miles off its coast.

The court, adding thai Ices-land cannot impose any restrictions on British fishing unilaterally, held that Iceland and Britain are under mutual obligation to undertake negotiations in good faith toward a equitable resolution of their differences. The court also indicated that Iceland's preferential fishing rights, as well as-JJri-tain's traditional i jbktg rights and the rieed fishery resources: must be taken into 1 A if: II It' V1 'fr -tj; ruling -j a- .1 Explosion kills one, blocks Queensway driver was trapped in the cab of the truck (right background) as flames engulfed the. moving van. (CP-Staff Photo by Russ Mant) I.